SPECIMEN STAMPS OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 1894-1906 ISSUES

Lot 191		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $260 1894 Wmk Crown SA (close) Perf 15 2½d Violet-Blue (2) and 5d Brown-Purple (3, one showing spacing bar printing between ‘P’ and ‘E’) Tannenburg Designs, and 1898-99 Perf 13 ½d Yellow-Green, 1d Rosine, 2d Bright Violet and 2½d Indigo all with Type 6 overprint, most part o.g.(9) The two 1894 stamps were distributed to the U.P.U. in April 1894, but the 1898-99 set was never distributed in this way and are scarcer